this is very good for your literacy btw
don't be ashamed to frequently google words you don't know, it's better to learn now instead of giving up
especially in an age where literacy rates are at an all time low
notes on an execution!!!! if you’re looking for a “true crime”/ thriller that actually makes you think and you want to have a thought provoking conversation this is it!!
Today is Land Day.
50 years ago today, six un-armed Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and more than 100 were injured during protests against Israel’s confiscation of Palestinian land.
Palestinians observe today by holding protest marches and planting olive trees.
Keith Porter’s murder wasn’t captured on camera, so it’s allowing ICE to sweep it under the rug, but we need to keep talking about him just as much as we talk about Renee Good and Alex Pretti. None of us are safe from this campaign of state violence.
Breaking News:
A woman was just shot in the face while trying to flee ICE agents in Minneapolis.
None of this is normal.
The United States is the most barbaric country on earth.
A list of the US regime change efforts in Latin America over the years:
1846–1848 – Mexico
1898 – Cuba
1903 - Panama
1906–1909 - Cuba
1909 - Nicaragua
1912–1933 - Nicaragua
1913 -Mexico
1914 - Mexico
1915–1934 - Haiti
1916–1924 - Dominican Republic
1916–1917 - Mexico
1932 – El Salvador
1933–1940s – Cuba
1944 – Guatemala
1946 – Bolivia
1948 – Costa Rica
1952 – Cuba
1953–1954 – British Guiana
1954 – Guatemala
1960s: Cold War Escalation
1960–1961 – Cuba
1961 – Cuba
1961 – Dominican Republic
1962–1963 – Brazil
1963 – Dominican Republic
1963 – Ecuador
1963 – Honduras
1964 – Brazil
1964 – Bolivia
1965 – Dominican Republic
1966–1996 – Guatemala
1970s: Operation Condor Era
1970–1973 – Chile
1971 – Bolivia
1973 – Chile
1973 – Uruguay
1976 – Argentina
1976–1983 – Region-wide (Operation Condor)
1979 – Nicaragua
1980–1989 – Nicaragua
1980–1992 – El Salvador
1980s – Honduras
1980–1992 – Guatemala
1980s – Jamaica
1982 – Bolivia
1983 – Grenada
1989 – Panama
1991 – Haiti
1994 – Haiti
2002 – Venezuela
2004 – Haiti
2009 – Honduras
2019 – Bolivia
2017–present – Venezuela
2018–present – Nicaragua
Every U.S. president from 1901–present has been involved in Latin American regime change. The US remains an imperialist presence in Latin America.
All done editing Wednesday's podcast! @hungryrye and @krxxtxn from @LitLibPodcast will be joining in for a review and recap of They Both Die at the End by @AdamSilvera, the 2017 YA speculative fiction novel that forces us to confront the mortal weight of life and death.